Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] pseries: Add H_SET_MODE hcall to change guest exception endianness

[Alexander Graf]

On 19.08.2013, at 13:04, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
>>> +    if (resource == 4) {
>> 
>> This ought to be a #define.  There's no else here, is that expected?
>> Should you return failure for a different resource?
> 
> Good point, I made it a define. We were returning H_P2 for a different
> resource, but it was a bit of a twisted maze of return statements. I
> tried to clear it up in this version.
> 
>> Without knowing this interface better, a few things come to mind.
>> 
>> Is mflags a boolean?  If so, you can reduce this to a single loop and
>> drop the switch() statement.  If mflags is truly a set of flags, it
>> would be nice to use #define to give the flags a proper symbolic name.
> 
> Unfortunately it isn't a boolean, but yes it should have be made
> clearer with a #define.
> 
> Anton
> --
> 
> pseries: Add H_SET_MODE hcall to change guest exception endianness
> 
> H_SET_MODE is used for controlling various partition settings. One
> of these settings is the endianness a guest takes its exceptions in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied after I replaced tabs with spaces ;).


Alex